re: Are we really talking about a modern European country breaking apart in Civil War?

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Someone fill me in on Spanish socio-economics. Are the Catalonians the ones that are sick of the pro EU crap and are doing something about it?

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No. Its not really like that. If anything, Catalonians are the liberals. But Spain is very unique. In virtually all of the world, the leftists were the oppressors and destructors of society during the Cold War area. Spain, who stayed out of the war and thus the US/Soviet direct sphere of influence, had the opposite. Franco was on the right and centered in Madrid.

It has more to do with economics. Catalonia just has better economic resources. It would be something like the German economy tanking and West Germany wanting independence from East Germany since East Germany is a net dead-weight. So in that way, they are against federalism, which is similar to being against EU globalism.